The Sheila Variations

Speaking of feng shui

Bill's post here (in which he references Feng Shui and bottled water) reminded me of something my friend Beth, her daughter Ceileidh and I saw on the streets of New York.

We were walking cross-town to get the subway up to the Metropolitan Museum. We were on 34th Street, walking east.

And this is what we overheard, in a flash, as someone passed by us:

It was a big kind of flowzy-shaped guy, wearing a grey suit, very conservative-looking, with sunglasses on - and he was talking very loudly on his cell phone as he careened past us. And all we heard was:

"Man, your feng shui is all FUCKED UP."

I just don't think that that's what the ancient feng shui gurus really had in mind.

Oh, one more thing:

I have worked in a "feng shui'ed" office and my roommate of 8 years was very into feng shui and re-did our main rooms - and it certainly does make a huge difference. Hard to explain. The first thing I did in my new apartment, in my rather small kitchen, was place a small mirror in a strategic position - and it completely opens up the room and makes it seem bigger and lighter. I don't think it's all malarkey, but I do think the popularization and yuppification of it is kind of ridiculous.

And some guy who looks like he eats Wendy's 3 times a day screaming to his friend about how his "feng shui is all fucked up" is high comedy.

Posted by sheila